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Frames Displays time in whole frames.
This is the default display mode. The amount of time covered by a single frame
depends on your choice for the current frame rate. For example, in NTSC video
each frame represents 1/30th of a second.
SMPTE Displays time using the Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers format.
This is the standard time-display format for most professional animation work.
From left to right, the SMPTE format displays minutes, seconds, and frames,
delineated by colons. For example, 2:16:14 represents 2 minutes, 16 seconds,
and 14 frames.
FRAME:TICKS Displays time using frames and the program's internal time
increment, called "ticks."
There are 4,800 ticks per second, so you can actually access time intervals as
small as 1/4800 of a second.
MM:SS:TICKS Displays time in minutes (MM), seconds (SS), and ticks,
delineated by colons. For example, 2:16:2240 represents 2 minutes, 16 seconds,
and 2,240 ticks.
Setting Time Segments
The active time segment specifies a block of working time. You might think
of it as a window in time that you use to focus on a specific part of your
animation.
Specifying an Active Time Segment
You specify the active time segment by setting the Start Time and End Time
for the segment on the
Time Configuration dialog on page 7565.
You can change the active time segment whenever you want without affecting
the keys you've already created. For example, if you have keys scattered over
a range of 1000 frames, you can narrow your active time segment to work
only on frames 150-300.
Changing the active time segment has the following effect:
■ Restricts the range of time you can access using the
time slider on page
7528.
■ Restricts the range of time displayed when using the animation playback
buttons.
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